Sentence Pairs - "feeling" sentences

We have seen in class that there are two different patterns used in English to express "feeling" sentences. Look at these examples:

I hope that John studies.

I want John to study.

Notice that some verbs in English use one pattern ("to do") and others use the other ("that"). In Spanish, all "feeling" sentences which express the idea that one person cares what someone else does follow the pattern of "hope that" which we use in English. We only use the "R" pattern ("to do") in Spanish when the same person wants to do something himself.

The other thing that we want to remember is that the vowel in the middle of the verb will change to the "opposite" vowel when we have a "feeling" sentence. In other words, verbs of the "A" category will shift to "e" and verbs of the "E" category (or "I" category which work like "E" verbs), will shift to "a". Look at the following charts.

"A" Verbs FACT FEELING

A E

"E" Verbs FACT FEELING

E A

Now, let's practice following this pattern by doing some sentence building.

For ordinary verbs, we just switch the "a" to "e" or vice versa. There are some irregular verbs, however, that have "feeling" forms which don't follow the normal pattern. We just have to memorize these forms. Here is the chart for the verb "ir" which means "to go".

IR FACT FEELING

voy
vas
va
vamos
van

vaya
vayas
vaya
vayamos
vayan